Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958608903503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819407333
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5860890

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Summary

Manuscript is a compendium of rites of worship, laid out in detail to be performed for the purposes of purification. Includes procedures for worshiping the Hindu deity with the elephant head, Gaṇeśa, bathing rites, sipping water from the hand, lights, and thread ceremony of initiation, among others. Manuscript is incomplete; it lacks a beginning.

Notes

• Title from margin abbreviations throughout (f. 14v-20r).
   
• Written in 7-10 lines per leaf.
   
• 7 leaves foliated 14-20, upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1903 (1846) (f. 20r).
   
• Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
• Puja (Hinduism)
• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions
• Hindu mantras
• Bathing customs--India
• Initiation rites--Religious aspects

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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